Couple of quizzes to keep you entertained. There are no real rules; I will post the answers after a suitable period of time. Discussion is permitted.
Cwiz 1: Prisons
1. In which novel did Edmond Nantes escape from the Chateau d’If?
2. In which prison was the Marquis de Sade incarcerated?
3. Which South African prison was named after the Afrikaans word for seal?
4. Which Cavalier poet wrote, “Stone walls do not a prison make”?
5. Which US prison took its name from pelicans?
6. Who wrote
I never saw a man who looked,
With such a wistful eye,
Upon that little tent of blue,
Which prisoners call the sky.
7. Tartarus was a dungeon in Greek myth; for whom was it built?
8. Frank Darabont directed which prison movie?
9. Which isolated UK prison opened in 1809 to house Napoleonic War prisoners?
10. In 1952, the Kray twins were held in which historic prison?
This cwiz is courtesy of ProfessorPineapple
Cwiz 2: Scrambled Plays
1. Forgoing toadwit
2. Meth cab
3. Née in lewd farmyards
4. Limp agony
5. Anal seas fathomed
6. Sex up or die
7. A Leo knocking bar
8. See earthling games
9. I scorn hero
10. Sole had soul
Ovally Balls 
72/4, with Stokes and Pope at the wicket. England will need a good partnership between these two or one of these two and Buttler. Would actually like to see Stokes and Archer together belting it around.
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Craigs, I don’t. Mrs Deebee and I got married quite late by conventional standards, so we decided a party with both sets of mates was preferable to strippers and being tied to traffic lights etc. My best mate has been engaged for 18 years now – they decided that was enough in terms of commitment, and most of my other mates I met when they were already married. One or two memorable (slightly contradictory) ones trawling through bars and strip joints etc, but never the humiliation bit.
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Pope plunders a pair to rouse Stokes from his slumber! 3 boundaries in two overs. And just as i was about to praise the Pope, he feathers one through to the keeper. 87/5 and staring down the barrel.
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Deebs – that’s fair enough. Tbh I can remember all of my stag do so, beyond the casual mocking of my ancestors there wasn’t much humiliation.
I went to one stag do which was at a campsite with some out of the way wooden cabins and my mates fiancé had booked some cabins next door for her hen night without telling my friend. It was extremely awkward.
They’re divorced now.
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It was extremely awkward.
They’re divorced now.
Imagine that!
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Stag do was a relatively restrained affair. Little in the way of bad behaviour, really. Paintballing and sailing was perpetrated.
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And pubbing, obviously. And I had to dress as a slightly camp viking. Happy days.
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Just had a half hour ‘chat’ about the planet Nibiru with a decorator. Wurr all doomed apparently. Due to a giant planet hiding behind the sun (at the moment)
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Not sure how it’s going to suddenly jump out and go boo! when it’s been hiding for so long, maybe my grasp of orbital mechanics is just not sufficient.
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Well if we’re all doomed there’s hardly any point in you paying the decorator, is there? Find out who all his/her mates are and enlist their services too!
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And Stokes goes, after an entertaining partnership with Buttler! Holder getting one to shape away just enough to tickle the edge of the bat. Stokes played well, a captain’s innings, but he was just a shade off balance in playing that shot. 154/6.
England dressing room desperately looking for Nibiru to make an appearance. All a bit moot since Southampton apparently doesn’t have access to the sun.
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Crowd streaming out the ground now. Hang on, it’s just the 12th man going back to the balcony.
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And another! Buttler’s cameo ends with a feather and tickle in the basement. Holder’s bowling beautifully here. Jimmy will be licking his lips too.
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Deebs – it was also awkward when the best man got really drunk and started jokingly slapping me a bit too hard and then my friend threatened to knock him out. This was a combination of the unexpected gate crashers and my crime of being an accountant.
By that point I just started laughing at how ridiculous it all was. Shame really.
To paraphrase Borat, it’s OK though, he has a new wife now.
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It’s raining wickets! Holder spears one in to Archer and it hits him in front. Umpire thought it was going down, but was clattering into leg stump. Three reviews for LBW, all three successful by the Windies. Umpire looked a bit green having to overturn another decision.
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204 all out. With the Windies having a flaky as fuck lineup themselves, that may be competitive. Not enforcing the follow-on competitive, but enough for a 35-50 run 1st innings lead.
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Treacle toes to stay at sarries
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Would have thought the weedge would have been a good move there. They need some back 3 players. And back rows.
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‘Scottish Rugby is developing a proposal aimed at making Edinburgh v Glasgow on 22 August a “pilot” event with a limited number of fans in attendance’
That would be nice
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Does that mean the Edinburgh crowd would increase then?
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Finally! Thanks BB. I didn’t want to be the one saying it. Even with a small crowd any rugby would be great now.
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There’s a chance I’ll be in Embra the weekend of the first match, but I don’t think I’ll be attending, even if I’m allowed to.
I’ll watch it on tv
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Oh, btw, the latest thing “they” are saying is that the Kings and Cheetahs will be canned and the four Sooper sides will join the Pro Woo, Sooper Rugby will be a purely trans-Tasman affair, with the Jags being given the Spanish Archer
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Oh and SANZAAR will be potted heid
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They do seem to have a lot to say.
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From my lofty perch up here SANZAAR do seem to have made a bit of a baws-up of super rugby over recent years.
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With all this ‘talk’ about the saffas joining pro5000 has anyone given a thought to the poor Australia’s?
Imagine entering a recurring nightmare where your teams are losing to the Kiwis forever and ever. It’s like Bloodborne.
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Where do the umbilical chords come into it? Sounds a bit grim furra game of rugger with kiddies watching
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Might be just a bit of manoeuvring by those shifty saffas. Perhaps a way of increasing lunch allowances or something.
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Rugby administrators around the world generally seem pretty rubbish.
The SuperTransTasmanRugby tournament’s already the scene of plenty of bickering.
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One administrator who seems to be doing interesting things is Eduard Coetzee at the Sharks:
https://www.newframe.com/the-sharks-transformation-champion/
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jul/10/noah-lyles-smashes-bolt-200m-world-record-then-discovers-he-only-ran-185m
This is up there with the 1932 Olympic 3000m steeplechase final where they ran an extra lap…
Only if he was able to run the remaining 15m in 0.28 of a second – as he was running 10m/sec (approx) – it’s not a persuasive claim….
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Australian SuperRugby is in SuperTime.
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Super is a very versatile word if it can be used to describe this.
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Exciting times in SuperRugby. Scrum penalty for the Reds means Bryce Heggarty has a shot from the halfway line to win it for the Reds.
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Bryce misses. Another 5 minutes of SuperTime to come.
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Hodge 50/22s the ball in SuperTime before his Rebs blow the lineout.
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The rumpus and rumours about Super Rugby never stop. Largely it’s Australia’s fault for having crap sides and even crapper crowds and expecting South Africa, which brings the headline sponsor and the lion’s share of viewership to it, to bail them out so that Izzy can carry on making homophobic rants.
To make matters worse, our brave lads have always had the worst of the travel schedules, something that was partially rectified when Argentina joined to a chorus of outrage from islands on the edge of the global map. Snowflakes.
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SuoerTime, designed to find a winner when scores are level at 80 minutes, brings a draw.
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I remember that before Argentina joined The Rugby Championship, there were rumours that because the bulk of their international players were France/UK -based that they would join the 6N – basing themselves in Belgium for the duration.
I wonder how long before that starts again…..I suppose the SA rumour mill is so productive, there’s no need for another line of speculation.
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Where do the umbilical chords come into it?
Instead of oranges at half time.
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Would actually quite like Argentina to be in the Six Nations. Goodbye Italy I suppose tho.
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This Wirecard bankruptcy/scandal is amazing., a real cracker.
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That’s good I love a non-partisan think-tank. You can always trust them. Ah, wait, the sentence hadn’t finished. Let me just
I bloody well hope that’s the non-partisan CIA.
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For anyone interested, Huey Morgan (formerly of Fun Lovin’ Criminals*) has a series on BBC4/Iplayer on Latin Music. Last week he was in Brazil, this week he’s in Cuba. STarts at 9.30 on BBC4
*I keep getting Fun Lovin’ Criminals mixed up with Fine Young Cannibals.
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BB, I really enjoyed the first show in Huey’s series, I’m looking forward to the rest, however, I’d like to report that I watched a contender for the best music doc ever. It’s called Tuba to Cuba and follows the Preservation Hall house band as they go to Cuba to discover the roots of Jazz, it’s a heart-warming, joyous film. There is history in why they go there, and it’s lovely.
I have Sky Arts as part of the Virgin deal and I watched it there, I don’t know where else it can be found via streaming, but it will be out there.
I cried at one point, laughed and clapped at many others.
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Also, I’m told that BBC Alba are doing the full length version of the Ken Burns Country programmes, they are twice as long as the the ones shown on BBC 4 – they are in Gaelic with English subtitles.
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I missed part of his first one on Brazil, but watched the one tonight. It’s a bit like the Songs of the South with Reginald D. Hunter, in that they both go a bit deeper than just the ‘well-known’ types of music, and they both were presented by folk who were really interested in what they found out. Although I reckon there could be a series to be made just on music of the Caribbean on its own. There’s obviously the huge African influences, plus various islands have Spanish, French, British, Dutch backgrounds and probably other countries too.
The programme tonight also reminded me that I have the Buena Vista Social Club still recorded somewhere, so I’ll need to search that out at some point.
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Real cricket looming on Sunday so have been reading the regulations. One positive seems to be that should anyone come to me seeking a ‘tactical discussion’ I’ll be telling them to go forth and socially distance…
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” they are twice as long as the the ones shown on BBC 4 – they are in Gaelic with English subtitles.”
A lot of events I was part of in Aberystwyth felt at least twice as long as they could have been because all the talking had to be done in Welsh as well as English. Or indeed the other way round as there always seemed to be far more Welsh used than English to notionally say the same thing, but there we are. I’m surprised that using subtitles on the telly has the same effect.
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